Current-motor.



A. WIEBKE.

CURRENT MOTOR.

PATENTED SEPT. 5, 1905.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 14.1904.

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CURRENT MOTOR.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CEETCE.

AUGUST XVIEBKE, OF MILES CITY, MONTANA, ASSICNCR OF CNE-HALF TO ROBERT E. C-RUIVELL, OF MILES CITY, i\l(.)i\"l`ANA.

CURRENT-MOTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1905.

Application tiled July 14,1904. Serial No. 216.463.

To /r/Z/ wim/1t it Utr/y concern:

le it known that I, AUGUs'i Timmie` a citizen of the United States, residing at Miles City, in the county of Custer and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Current-Motors; and I do hereby declare the following' to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to current-motors, and has for its especial object to provide a simple and eftieient combined current -motor and pump for use in elevating water from a running stream to a distant point.

To the above ends the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying' drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is a plan view of the combined motor and pump mounted on a raft or other Vform of tloat in accordance with my invention. Fig. Q is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is a detail in vertical section on the line .r3 .1x3 of l.

The numeral l indicates a suitable raft or other Vform of floating' support, the same having, as shown, a pair of large opening's 2, through which the paddle-wheels, presently to be described, are adapted to work. The paddle-wheels 3 have approximately radial, but preferably slightly backwardly curved, blades, and oneof the said blades is hinged at-I and is connected to the blade to the rear thereof preferably by a pair of toggle-links 5. The purpose of this folding' feature will be noted later on. In its preferred construction two of these paddle-wheels are provided, and they are both rigidly secured to a shaft 6, which is journaled in suitable bearings T on the floating support l. This shaft is provided with a gear b, that meshes with a pinion 9, journaled in a bracket l0, secured on the float l between the paddle-wheels. The pinion 9 has projecting trunnions l1, to which are attached a pair of oppositely-projecting cranks l2.

In its preferred arrangement a pair of upright pumps are employed, the cylinders 13 thereof being rigidly secured at their bottoms to the tloat lland at their upper ends to brackets Il, projecting from pedestals 15, which in turn are rigidly attached at their lower ends to the said float. The cylinders 13 have discharge-nozzles I6, and the stems of their pistons 17 are attached to levers 1S, pivoted to the upper end of the pedestal 15. The free ends of the levers 1S are connected by long' rods I9 to the cranks 1Q.

The shaft (5, it will be no ted, is located in a horizontal plane above the upper portion of the l'loat l, and hence above the level of the water which supports the float. The said float, it will of course be understood, must be anchored in the stream in such manner that it can rise and fall with the surface of the wa.- ter. l'lence with the construction described it is evident that the blades of the paddlewheels will project into the water for something less than one-half of their complete 1'0- tary movements, so that in making' their return or inoperative movements they will be carried out of the water, and hence relieved from the friction of the water. When it is desired to stop the wheels, the tog'gles 5 should be buckled or folded. se that the hinged blade will be turned up against the blade at the rear, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2 and by full lines in Fig. 3. As is evident, when the wheels` stand as shown in Fig'. 3 and the hinged blade is `folded no one of the blades will project into the running water, and hence the wheels will notbe turned. The toggles may be buckled or folded by any suitable means, either by hand or otherwise, and the folded blades may be held in inoperative position by friction or by any suitable means. The wheels should be rotated in the direction indicated by the arrow marked on Fig. 2.

As is evident, the two pumps will be operated in alternate order, so that a continuous stream of water is pumped. The water discharged from the spout 16 may be conveyed to the distant point of delivery by a trough, a hose, or any other of the many well known means not illustrated in the drawings.

That I. claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

l. The combination wit-h a floatingsupport, of a water-wheel mounted thereon with its axis above the support, so that its blades will work in the water less than half of a revolution, said wheel having a blade movable into an inoperative position, the blades being' constructed and arranged to render the wheel inoperative upon the throwing of said movable IOO blade into inoperative position, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a ioating support, of a Water-Wheel mounted thereon With its axis above the support, so that its blades Will Work in the Water less than half of a revolution, said Wheel having a hinged blade movable into an inoperative position, the blade being constructed and arranged to render the Wheel inoperative upon the throwing of said movable blade into inoperative position, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a floating support, of a water-Wheel mounted thereon with its axis above the Water-level, said wheel having a hinged blade, a toggle-link connecting said hinged blade with an adjacent blade and normally holding said hinged blade in an operative position, said blade, when folded, rendering said blade inoperative, and a pump mounted on said iioating support and oper- 'ated by said wheel, substantially as described.

4. The combination With a ioating support 1, having Wheel passages 2, of the pair of water-Wheels 3 mounted on said support and carrying a gear 8, said Wheels having hinged blades and toggle -links 5 connecting said hinged'blades with adjacent blades, a pinion 9Yoarried by said support 1 and meshing With said gear 8, the cranks 12 driven by said pinion 9, the cylinder and piston-pumps carried by said support l, the pedestal 15, also carried by said support, the levers 18 pivoted to said pedestal and connected to the pistonrods of said pumps, and rods 19 connecting said levers 18 to said cranks 12, said parts operating substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

AUGrUSr `WIEBKE.

Witnesses: Y

ROBERT GRUWELL, AL FURsTRoW. 

